Somali News

Kidnapped by Somali pirates, journalist Michael Scott Moore spent two and half years in captivity. At times he was held on land, other times at sea. Once, when he was on a 160-foot tuna boat, he tried to escape by jumping over the side at night.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The U.S. military in Africa has taken steps to increase the security of troops on the ground, adding armed drones and armored vehicles and taking a harder look at when American forces go out with local troops, the head of the U.S. Africa Command says.

KAMPALA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The Ugandan military on Tuesday welcomed the UN Security Council's extension of the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), noting that the move will help it achieve some strategic objectives.

India was braced for unrest in its north eastern Assam state on Monday after the authorities declared some four million residents to be foreigners, effectively stripping them of their citizenship and raising fears of deportation.

Moyale was once again the epicentre of carnage as a week’s worth of it left around 50 people dead earlier this month. The town and its environs, hotly contested between the Borana Oromo and Garri Somali peoples who inhabit the area, often sees disputes lead to communal clashes. However, the severity of what has transpired goes beyond the templated shootout among pastoralists. Civilian areas have been targeted, women and children have died, infrastructure has been damaged. The federal government has been slammed for what is deemed to be its lackadaisical approach to the conflict.

Mogadishu, 30 July 2018 – A delegation of officials of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), is on a two-day working visit to Somalia to solicit the support of Somali authorities in the ratification of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

Mogadishu (HOL) - The General Secretary of Somalia’s National Chamber of Commerce, Shafi Rabi Kahin, was reportedly detained by officers at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport on Tuesday as he flew in from Brussels.

Djibouti (HOL) - The Djibouti President, Ismail Omar Guelleh is expected to visit the Eritrean capital Asmara later this week to engage in direct bilateral talks with his Eritrean counterpart President Isaias Afwerki, Hiiraan Online has learned.

The closure of the Kenya-Somalia border in Mandera at the height of insecurity five years ago could be costing the country at least Ksh2 billion ($20 million) annually, as smugglers have a field day sneaking substandard goods in and out the country.

Neymar’s decision to use a sponsored advert to admit he sometimes over-reacted to fouls at the World Cup has backfired, with Brazilian marketing experts saying it had made the Paris Saint-Germain striker’s image even worse.

The Security Council voted Monday to delay the reduction of troops in the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia from October to February and its target date for Somali forces to take the lead in the country's security to December 2021.